JAS fiasco black eye for EOJ

The recent annual general meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society held at Denbigh on July 11 saw the Electoral Organisation of Jamaica handling the election of officers.

I was there and had challenges to cast my vote. Your newspaper pointed out that an 88-year-old director, Hugh Lyon, did not vote, as he was told that he was not on the voters' list.

The exercise can go down as a litmus test of how our national elections are run in Jamaica. Questioning the officials supervising the event, I could not learn from them whether or not the system was ISO-certified.

In fact, there was electronic voting, where you had to shade in with a special pencil your choice of candidate. We need to have our voting system adhering to ISO standards, which would involve the compilation of an accurate voters' list with a tolerable percentage of error.